Bend Over...
According to the upcoming New York Times Magazine, during the time
of the tough negotiations over executive compensation headed by pay
czar Kenneth Feinberg, Wall Street had an ally - in both the Treasury
Department and the New York Federal Reserve. No one fought harder,
though, than CFO David Herzog, who threatened to leave the firm if he
didn't get to keep his $1.5 million bonus. Time wrote, "No one at
A.I.G. seemed to be embarrassed to argue that the chief financial
officer of Wall Street's Titanic was irreplaceable."
One interesting
note - AIG's spent $3 million from taxpayers - on two compensation
consultants and two Wall Street firms to file their compensation
proposal to Feinberg.
These guys really are terrorists - they strap
metaphorical explosives on themselves and threaten to blow up the
economy if we don't give them what they want. They're terrorist
bombers!
And how they're saying "bend over and take it" to the Obama
administration and Obama is asking them "How far?"
And when your tax
bill comes in April - about $700 for every man, woman, and child in
America going to the banksters, they'll be asking us to bend over and
smile.
Thom Hartmann is a Project Censored Award-winning New York Times best-selling author, and host of a nationally syndicated daily progressive talk program on the Air America Radio Network, live noon-3 PM ET. www.thomhartmann.com His most recent books are "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight," "Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights," "We The People," "What Would Jefferson Do?," "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle (more...)